Hey, some of these kids come from real crappy situations through no fault of their own.
If a private company wants to donate some resources to fill a need that has these results, I think it’s outstanding.
Uh, it is all nice and cute, but when will the taxpayers be forced to buy laundry machines for the skools?
Actually, I don’t see any problem with it.
My uncle taught at an inner-city school in the hood.
At times he would actually buy clothes for his kids with
his own money. Many came from homes where mommy barely budged from her drugged and drunken stupor.
I agree. What conservatives should is step in and find a way to keep this a private initiative.
I agree. What conservatives should is step in and find a way to keep this a private initiative.
Our school had a small locker of toiletries. Many times a teacher had to pull a child aside and privately give them a little bag of soap and shampoo. I remember that one boy I had to do that with. I'm not exaggerating when I say that his body odor literally made eyes water. He told me that his mother was ill (doing chemo, as I found out later) and couldn't get out of bed, so he was making do best he could. We got him to bring his clothes into school, and we washed them in the athletic washing machines.
There was a little girl whose mother would sell everything she could get her hands on to support various habits, including her daughter's clothes. So, one of the female teachers set up a little closet for her at school. She would wear her rags into school early, and then get changed into the nicer school clothes. At the end of the day, she'd switch back. She didn't dare wear the nice clothes home for fear her mother would sell them.
Anyone who has ever worked in a school has similar stories.
Funny, we drone on and on about the virtues of charity, then piss all over it when it actually happens.
I understand what you are saying.
However there are a number of kids in terrible situations who need to be removed from those situations.
We are supporting the irresponsibility of the parents by feeding them and cleaning their clothes.
These kids need to be removed. We need to re-think the ideas of orphanages and training schools to help socialize and care for these children. And stop enabling their parents.
Whirlpool can get credit for donating the machines, but who has the laundry duty? Do the schools hire someone? Unless someone is volunteering, the taxpayers are picking up the tab.